Poll: Trump lapping the field in Georgia, By Bradford Richardson, 12/11/15
Republican presidential front-runner
Donald Trump is the overwhelming leader in the Georgia primary, according to a
poll released Friday.
The Landmark/Rosetta Stone poll,
first reported by Channel 2 News in Atlanta, shows the real estate mogul with 43.1 percent support in the
Peach State, distantly followed by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), with 16.2 percent.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) places
third in the poll, with 10.6 percent, followed by retired neurosurgeon Ben
Carson, with 6.7 percent, and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, with 4.8 percent.
Carson had 18 percent support in the
state in the same poll in September. The retired neurosurgeon's decline comes
amid a visit to Atlanta on Tuesday. Carson spent much of his speech at the Cobb
Energy Performing Arts Center trying to bolster his foreign policy credentials
in the wake of a series of recent terrorist attacks.
Carson made waves Friday when he threatened to leave the Republican Party, one day after a report that
senior GOP officials had met to discuss a potential brokered convention.
The poll surveyed 800 likely
Republican primary voters in Georgia on Dec. 10. The margin of error is 3.3
percent.
Poll: Trump expands lead over GOP field, By Mark Hensch, 12/4/15
Donald Trump is expanding his lead
over the GOP’s field of 2016 presidential candidates, according to a poll
released Friday that says a majority of Republican voters think him most
capable of taking the White House next year.
About 36 percent of
Republican-leaning voters support Trump’s Oval Office bid, according to the CNN/ORC survey,
up 9 percentage points from October and 20 points above his nearest
competition.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), meanwhile,
has climbed to second place in the national poll, supplanting retired
neurosurgeon Ben Carson, with 16 percent and 14 percent, respectively. Cruz has
gained 12 points in the last two months according to the survey, while Carson
has dropped 8.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) takes
fourth in Friday’s survey, earning 12 percent among Republican-leaning voters.
And New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie rounds out Republicans' top five presidential
picks, grabbing 4 percent voter support.
Majorities or pluralities believe
Trump most capable of handling several issues facing the nation, including the
economy (55 percent, with Cruz the next closest, at 9 percent), the Islamic
State in Iraq and Syria (46 percent) and immigration (48 percent).
Approximately 52 percent view the
outspoken billionaire as the Republican most capable of winning the 2016
general election.
Roughly 42 percent say Trump would
be the most effective at solving the nation’s problems, while 37 percent say he
can best handle the responsibilities of the presidency.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, former
Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul all saw their numbers
fall from October, with Bush dropping from 8 percent to 3 percent.
CNN/ORN conducted its latest
sampling of 445 registered Republican-leaning voters from Nov. 27 to Dec. 1 via
cell and landline telephone. The survey has a 4.5 percent margin of error.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/262081-poll-trump-expands-lead-over-gop-field
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